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The French Piano School 1 & 2

APR is launching a fascinating new series of recordings devoted to French pianism called ‘The French Piano School’. As Charles...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 5 (Lukas Geniusas)

The story of the underdog supposedly autodidact Frenchman Lucas Debargue getting to the finals of 2015 Tchaikovsky competition stole the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

MOZART Piano Sonatas (Jean Muller; Peter Donohoe)

It’s not unusual for pianists more associated with later, large-scale virtuoso music to reach a rapprochement with Mozart. Jean Muller...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4 (Roscoe)

A set of fearsomely demanding concert études, a neo-Gothic exuberant Passacaglia, a Baroque-meets-Romantic suite and a Lisztian cycle of character...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

Michael Roll plays Liszt and Beethoven

The back cover of this disc states that, since his victory in the first-ever Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles. Diabelli Variations (Imogen Cooper)

Somehow it was a while since I had heard the Op 119 Bagatelles, and I’m grateful to Imogen Cooper for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 31 & 32 (Sudbin)

Yevgeny Sudbin is not an artist to go into the studio lightly and it’s a bold move to choose as...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019

Mark Bebbington: Private Passions

First recordings of two sets of piano pieces by Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen (his charismatic muse and lover) adorn...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2019

JS BACH Chorale Partitas BWV766-768 & 770 (Stephen Farr)

Here is a welcome addition to the Bach discography, with the chance to appreciate the awesome compositional skills on display...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2019

Tableaux de Provence: Works for Saxophone

The main connecting thread – one of several – linking the four works in this engaging French recital for alto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

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